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This was the first of the seven orders made in 1 Eliz. for all the Inns of Court; of which orders the sixth runs thus: "That none should wear any velvet upper cap, neither in the house nor city.
She could not be brought even to discuss the advisability of her journey; Morin could not be sent, for the servants and Eliz would go mad with terror if left alone. To Courthope's imagination her journey seemed to be an abandonment of herself to the utmost danger. If between the two houses she failed to make progress over high drifts and against a heavy gale, what was to hinder her from perishing?
Price 6d. Brit. Mus. The Tryal of Mary Blandy. Published by Permission of the Judges. London: Printed for John and James Rivington at the Bible and Crown and in St. Paul's Churchyard. 1752. In folio price two shillings. 8vo. one shilling. Brit. Mus. The Genuine Histories of the Life and Transactions of John Swan and Eliz Jeffries, ... and Miss Mary Blandy.
The statute under which Bunyan suffered is the 35th Eliz., cap. 1, re-enacted with all its rigour in the 16th Charles II, cap. 4, 1662; 'That if any person, above sixteen years of age, shall forbear coming to church for one month, or persuade any other person to abstain from hearing Divine service, or receiving the communion according to law, or come to any unlawful assembly, conventicle, or meeting every such person shall be imprisoned, without bail, until he conform, and do in some church make this open submission following: I do humbly confess and acknowledge that I have grievously offended God in contemning his Majesty's godly and lawful government and authority, by absenting myself from church, and from hearing Divine service, contrary to the godly laws and statutes of this realm.
See state papers collected by Edward, earl of Clarendon, p. 92. * I Eliz. cap. 3. This act of recognition was probably dictated by the queen herself and her ministers; and she showed her magnanimity, as well as moderation, in the terms which she employed on that occasion.
The parliament, besides granting her a supply of one subsidy and two fifteenths, enacted some statutes for the security of her government, chiefly against the attempts of the Catholics. * Camden, p. 480. 23 Eliz. cap. 1. * 23 Eliz. cap. 2. D'Ewes, p. 302. v Camden, p. 477.
Take only a single jurisdiction, that of the Dean of York's Peculiar, between the years 1592-1601, and a number will be found. Cosen, An Apologie, etc., 64. As has been above stated, an excommunicate could not attend service. P. 47 supra. According to 23 Eliz. c. i, sec. 4 and sec. 6. See A.P.C., xiii, 271-2 . Cardwell, Doc. P. 19, note 33, supra. Hale, Crim.
The court doubted of the rape of so tender a girl; but if she had been nine years old, it would have been otherwise. 14 Eliz.
"A belief in witchcraft had always existed; it was entertained by Coke, Bacon, Hale and even Blackstone. It was a misdemeanor at English common law and made a felony without benefit of clergy by 33 Henry VIII, c. 8, and 5 Eliz., c. 16, and the more severe statute of I Jas. 1, ch. 12." "Selden took up a somewhat peculiar and characteristic position.
Eliz was not endowed with the same well-balanced sense of proportion; for the time the imaginary was the real. 'The only question that remains to be decided, she cried, 'is what you would prefer to be. We will let you choose Bingley, or Darcy, or
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